Money is the
most versatile form of power, so we should not be surprised at
its ability to corrupt.

In today's
NYT (“Where
25 Million Is Merely Average”) an eyebrow is raised at
the enormous salaries that company executives pay themselves -
justified, of course, by the “natural laws” of market
forces: $25 million a year simply being what a company like
Morgan Stanley has to pay for a top executive . . .

How
convenient it is to have a “natural law” with which
to justify pocketing a salary more than 500 times the size of
one's fellow, hard-working citizens, some of them putting
themselves in harms way to protect your way of life.

Just to raise
an eyebrow seems to me rather a shy reaction to such gross
and shameful corruption.

It is legally
endorsed corruption, which lies at the very heart of (not just,
but especially) American society.